Former Mahopac teacher: Chili pepper fueled my firing

4:44 PM,
Jan. 5, 2013

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Adam Pease, then an assistant principal at Mahopac High School, was evaluating the chemistry class taught by Maura Ann Brown in October 2009 when Brown gave students an example of the heat produced by a chili pepper to illustrate the concept of exothermic reaction.

But Pease later said that Brown had it all wrong: the chili pepper did not actually produce heat and therefore was not an accurate example. ...